Poems of Narad

In Every Passing Smile

Today will be the same as yesterday,
No monumental change perceptible.
I shall work for work is all I've known
Then look at my new rose and contemplate -
Could anything be more perfect than the rose?
I saw an Arab child of fifteen months
Who smiled at me and in his jet black eyes
Held beauty and the wisdom of the rose
And everywhere I went I looked in eyes
And found in them a meaning like the rose,
So many lives, so many souls on earth
Choosing to undergo the trials of birth
And the progressive evolution of the soul.
Heaven must be jealous that they prefer
Struggle and death and the cycles of rebirth
To angels aloft in a paradise of song.

Today is not the same as yesterday.
I have seen human kindness and have grown
By contact with things simple and divine.
Tomorrow I will wake to feel the change
And hear a music from the lips of men,
See wisdom shining from the children's eyes
And in the eternal feminine shall find
Beauty and love in every passing smile.